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Originally Posted by GGCO
If teams wanted to hide their minibots, then by all means do so! Have it covered up, put opaque shielding around it, and make sure no one sees it inbetween matches! Just don't have it in plain sight and expect to have people not be inspired by it (or copy it). To my, that's what's unfair.
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Sorry John,
I think I have to agree with Grant on this one. When "copying" designs I think it is up to mentors to teach kids why something is being made. And to be honest, with something like the minibots this year, there's many teams who worked their way down to the "barebones" style minibot, as I like to call it, on their own. 1647 is one example of such case (only example I have because I worked with them as they iterated their minibot design). Many teams also willingly helped others such as Aren of 1625 and Dustin from 816.
I guess what I just want to add in is for everyone to not go ahead and assume that if a team's minibot resembles the basic designs of another that it is a copy. Minibots when optimized are pretty easy to "steal from the best" but IMHO very hard to fulfil the "invent the rest" part of the equation.
+$0.02